A video should not result in violence. A cartoon should not result in killing. A novelist should not have to hide for years of his life because of a work of fiction. No one needs to be this sort of guardian for true greatness.

It is time for the CEO of Google, Larry Page, to recognize that the "film" called "The Innocence of Muslims" clearly falls outside YouTube's own standards against hate speech, and take down this posting immediately.

When do right-wing websites, radical Christian bloggers and Tea Party fringe characters care about someone who is targeted simply because he or she may be gay? When they can blame the evil Muslims, President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Democratic policies -- that's when.